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(No Model.) I'. H. ARGERSINGER.

BOSOM BOARD.

No. 389,682. Patented Sept. 18, 1888.

WTNESSBS: INVENTOR: @M Q/my v 227 ATTORNEYS.-

UNITED STATES i PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK H. ARGERSINGER, OF NEWKIRK MILLS, NEW YORK.

BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 389,682, dated September 18, 1888.

Application filed November Q6, 1887. Serial No. 256` .195. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, FRANK H'. ARGERsIN- GER, of Newkirk Mills, in the county of Fulton and State of New York, have invented anew and improved Bosom-Board, ofwhich the followingis a full, clear, and exact description. This invention relates to bosomboards, the object oftheinvention being to provide a board which shall be applicable for use in connection with shirts of different sizes.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan View of my improved form of bosomboard, parts being broken away and shown in section to disclose the construction ofthe board. Fig. 2-is alongitudinal sectional View taken on line :r: x of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a detail view illustrating the construction of one of the side retainingcleat-s.

In constructing the article forming the subj ect-matter of this application I provide a rect angular board, 10, over one face of which there is stretched one or more layers of fibrous material,11, said material being held to the board by cleats 12 and 13, that are screwed to the edges of the board after the material has been stretched tightly thereupon. In the outer faces of the cleats there are formed grooves 14., and at the ends of these grooves there are recesses 15, which are formed in the edges ofthe board and adapted to receive pins or posts 16, which are rigidly connected to andY extend inward from clamping-strips 17 the inner edges of which are formed with tongues 18 that it in the grooves 14, vthe strips being normally held against their cleats by spiral springs 22, that are coiled about the pins or posts 16 and arranged as clearly shown in Fig. 1. If desired, the clamping-strips could be provided with handles 19, as illustrated.

To one end of the board 10,1 connect a heartshaped block, 20, above which there is a strip,

21, that is normally held extended from the block 20 by springs 22"', that are mounted in recesses formed in the block 20, and abut against pins 23, that are carried by the strip 21, the outward throw of the strip being lilnited by a slotted plate, 24, secured to the strip 21, a bolt, 5o

25, having a winged nut, 26, passing through the slot ofthe plate 21.

In operation, the relative positions of the block 20 and the strip 21 are adjusted to [it the neckband of the shirt to be ironed, and the loose material at the side of the bosom is drawn downward between the cleats 12 and the clampingstrips 17, and there clamped to place, the iap of the shirt being drawn down between the cleat 13 and its clnmpingstrip 17. In this 6o position the bosom may he ironed without danger of becoming distorted or pulled out of shape.

Having thus fully described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-4 An improved bosom-board consisting ofthe recessed board 1l), )rovided with the grooved strips 12 and 13, the clamping-strips 17, provided with tongues and pins fitting in the 7o FRANK H. ARGERSINGER.

Witnesses:

J AMES J. HoUcK, p VAN RENSELAER CALDWELL. 

